This pages is for Angus, Maya, Maddie, and Gisel.


11.2- Events Leading up to the Crusades
by Maya
  • Seljuk [[#|Turks]] established [[#|new]] dynasty
  • They were [[#|eager]] to expand their territory
  • Took over Syria and Palestine
  • Alarmed the Christians who were worried about Jerusalem
  • After Seljuk's took over Palestine tales reached Europe about bad things
  • Christians feared not being able to visit Jerusalem
  • With concern over the Seljuk's this paved the path to the crusades


11.3-The Story of the Crusades
by Maya

[[#|The First Crusade]] (1096-1099)
- Four nobles led this crusade
- 30,000 crusaders fought through Anatolia then headed towards Palestine
- After nine months, a traitor let them through. Antioch fell to the Christians
- The [[#|next]] June, the crusaders surrounded Jerusalem until that city surrendered
- The crusaders (feeling victorious) massacred Muslims and Jews
- Some crusaders went back home, but some stayed and established four crusader kingdoms

The Second Crusade (1146- 1148)
- As the Muslims started to band back together they fought back
- 1144 was when they captured Edessa, the [[#|capital]] of one of the crusader kingdoms
- The Christians responded with the Second Crusade
- The Second Crusade ended in failure
  • An army from Germany was badly beaten
  • 50,000 crusaders marched to a place near Edessa
  • The Muslims from Edessa came to defense and beat back the crusaders
  • Soon after, the French army went home, ending this crusade

The Third Crusade (1189-1192)
- Muslims became stronger
- Salah al-Din had formed the largest empire since the Seljuks
- He led a renewed fight against crusaders in the Holy Land
- Salah al-Din quickly took back most of Palestine while his army captured Jerusalem
- The loss of their holy land shocked Europeans and started the Third Crusade
- King Richard 1 of England (Richard the Lion-heart) led this crusade determined
- In 1191, Richard's army forced the surrender on the Palestinian town of Acre
- Richard then ordered his army to kill all 2,700 of his Muslim prisoners
- He fought his way back to Jerusalem but his army did not have enough strength
- In September 1192, Salah al-Din and Richard 1 signed a peace treaty = No More Crusades!

Later Crusades
- 1212 children started the "Children's Crusade"
  • Few reached holy city
  • Some reached European port cities which then were sold into slavery
  • Some returned home and some disappeared
- No later crusade [[#|succeeded]] in recapturing Jerusalem


The Reconquista
- Crusaders warred against Muslims in Europe
- Over time, Christian rulers fought away at Muslim lands
- Muslims gradually gave up more and more territory
- In the late 1400s, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand wanted to unite Spain
- The used Inquisition, a church court, against Muslims and Jews
- They also sent armies against Granada
- In 1492, the city fell and Muslims lost their hold on Spain
- The same year Jews were told to become Catholic or leave the country
- More than 170,000 Jews left their homes forever


11.4 Christians and the crusades- by Gisel
-Christians reaped many [[#|benefits]] from the crusades
-Christians were wounded or killed
  • Change
-great economic changes
-increased use of money
-began [[#|banking]] functions
-kings started [[#|tax]] systems
-monarchs grew more powerful
-help end feudalism
Learning about new foods
-taste for melons, apricots, [[#|sesame seeds]], carob beans
-pepper
  • Trade
-more money because of new goods
  • Individuals
-Richard I
-led the third crusade
-devoted to the Christian cause
-devoted to knightly ideals of courage and honor
-spent most of reign on the crusades
-Anna Commena
-daughter of Byzintine emperor
-wrote about expierence in first crusade
-mixed feelings about crusaders
-respected Christians, but realized that many were dangerous

11.5 Muslims and the crusades-by Gisel
  • less benefits for Muslmis than Christians
-new weapons
-new military skills
  • trade
-more riches for Muslim merchants
  • deaths
- number osf of Muslims lost lives in battle and massacres
  • Salah al-Din
-greatest Muslim leader during the crusades
-saw that Muslims needed to defend themselves and Islam
-Muslims neede to be organized/cooperate with one another to have more success in the crusades
-unified groups
  • Usamah
-respected Christiens and Jews
-fought fearlessley against crusaders
-wrote about some crusades



11.6 Jews and the Crusades- by Maddie J.
- violent persecutions
-tortured Jews to convert to Christianity
-forced to live in ghettos
-many Jews massacred
-forced to flee and leave belongings
Eliezar ben Nathan
- wrote about violent destruction of communities in First Crusade
- hated crusaders and wondered why God let so many Jews die
Eleazar ben Judah
- Second crusade= forced to leave town
- several years later, 2 crusaders attacked his family and killed his wife and childeren
- continued to preach love to all humanity


11.7 The Mongol Invasion- by Maddie J.
- Muslims faced Mongols
-
Mongols began converting to Islam
- Helped bring unity to their empire

Made Persian the language of government

-Rebuilt cities they had destroyed and encouraged learning,

the arts, and trade

-One of the largest empires the world has ever seen